Careful, I don't think I'm a Reviewer. I merely had the misfortune to care a whole lot about this stuff once long long ago.
David On 2013-09-12, at 4:49 PM, Brian Burkhalter <brian.burkhal...@oracle.com> wrote: > On Sep 12, 2013, at 1:00 PM, David Chase wrote: > >> On 2013-09-12, at 1:17 AM, Dmitry Nadezhin <dmitry.nadez...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> The optimal constant for double conversion could be 768 , >>> the optimal constant for float conversion could be 142, >>> but I leave this optimization to JDK 9. >> >> It would be helpful to mention in the proof/comment, that 768 refers to the >> decimal representation that has had leading zeroes between decimal point >> and mantissa trimmed. > > I updated the webrev to include a comment for MAX_NDIGITS sans both hyperlink > and the foregoing verbiage: > > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bpb/8024356/ > > If there is any more tweaking of comments which needs to be effected prior to > an approval request being posted to 7u-dev, please let me know. > > Thanks, > > Brian